Bøker av Rachel Holmes

Get cozy together and celebrate love while you learn what Valentine's Day is about, and explore all the different ways to show someone that you care.This is a sweet, rhyming story about how love connects us together, and how you can show the people you love kindness and affection while being true to yourself and your feelings.Glossy, easy to clean finish8.5 inches wide by 8.5 inches tallPerfect for children ages 1 to 5Charming large illustrationsLarge print, easy to read for all ages

Have you seen the milk monster?This amusing story is told through the eyes of a tiny mouse about a monster waking from her slumber hungry for food. Follow the mouse as he takes you through the monster's hidden jungle cave to hear the rumble of her belly, watch her stomp her enormous feet, and discover if the monster's mama can do what mamas do best...Comfort the monster and help her get what she really needs - MILK!This timeless tale is geared towards young children ages 1 to 3, and it gives them an opportunity to learn about big feelings, and needs being met in a simple and relatable way. The search and find page in the back makes this book even more enjoyable for little growing minds and a constant go to for parents.

THE FIRST BOOK THAT TEACHES THE BASIC ITALIAN WORDS TO THE LITTLE ONES WITHOUT LOOKING LIKE A SCHOOL BOOK.This book teaches children the same things as a grammar book, but through fun stories to read.This is because, for a child, there''s no better way to learn a language than by listening to stories.Think about it:Stories are engaging, compelling, keep the children''s attention high, and are able to teach important things without the children even noticing it.Conversely, grammar books (those filled with infinite lists of words, verbs, idioms, and so on) tend to make children RUN AWAY.They''re so bored...Imagine that stories are the pole of the magnet that attracts children, while grammar books are the opposite one that pushes them away.So, what will children learn by reading to these short, fun, and relaxing stories?Let me break this down for you: ΓÇó Letters of the AlphabetΓÇó NumbersΓÇó The Days of the WeekΓÇó Months of the YearΓÇó Objects in the HouseΓÇó ClothingΓÇó FoodΓÇó EmotionsΓÇó AnimalsChildren won''t even notice they''re learning all of that!The little ones can read to the stories during the day while playing, or before going to sleep as bedtime stories (we know that listening to something before falling asleep causes it to be imprinted in our memory).So, whenever children will listen to these stories......Let them become bilingual effortlessly - because once they grow up it becomes much more difficult.Order Now 

This choose your own adventure story is a unique, illustrated resource and a compelling mystery, focused on developing the social skills of autistic children aged 8-12. Positioning the reader as the main character allows all children to become fully immersed in the narrative, helping them develop social skills and build confidence.

Half a century after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchanged purity and maternity to become desiring machines inspired only by variations of sex, shopping and masochism - all coloured a brilliant neuro-pink?In this volume, fifty women young and old - writers, politicians, actors, scientists, mothers - reflect on the shades that inspired them and what being woman means to them today. Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Joan Bakewell, Bidisha, Lydia Cacho, Shami Chakrabarti, Lennie Goodings, Linda Grant, Natalie Haynes, Siri Hustvedt, Kathy Lette, Kate Mosse, Pussy Riot, Bee Rowlatt, Elif Shafak, Ahdaf Soueif, Sandi Toksvig, Natasha Walter, Timberlake Wertenbaker Jeanette Winterson - alongside the three editors.

The acclaimed biography of Sarah Baartman, once a slave and later a showgirl'A significant and timely book . Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review'Impeccable ... In telling her extraordinary story, Holmes's fascinating book illuminates the forces which dominated her age, and resound in our own' Sunday TelegraphIn 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, London's most famous curiosity, became its legal cause célèbre. Famed for her exquisite physique - in particular her shapely bottom - she was stared at, stripped, pinched, painted, worshipped and ridiculed. This talented, tragic young South African woman became a symbol of exploitation, colonialism - and defiance.In this scintillating and vividly written book Rachel Holmes traces the full arc of Baartman's extraordinary life for the first time.

A reissue of Rachel Holmes's landmark biography of Dr James Barry, one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age.James Barry was one of the nineteenth century's most exceptional doctors, and one of its great unsung heroes. Famed for his brilliant innovations, Dr Barry influenced the birth of modern medical practice in places as far apart as South Africa, Jamaica and Canada. Barry's skills attracted admirers across the globe, but there were also many detractors of the ostentatious dandy, who caused controversy everywhere he went. Yet unbeknownst to all, the military surgeon concealed a lifelong secret at the heart of his identity: on his death Barry was claimed to be anatomically female and in fact a cross-dresser.Vividly drawn and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Dr James Barry brings to life one of the most enigmatic figures of the Victorian age, elevating its subject to a latter-day transgender icon - and is a landmark in the art of biography.

The extraordinary and dramatic biography of the first modern feminist, who spent her entire life fighting for the principle of equality'Gripping ... Most lives would be overshadowed by such a melodramatic end. But Marx's life was so much more than a murder mystery, as Rachel Holmes's gripping and vividly told biography demonstrates' Sunday Times'Superb ... The story of this remarkable life is so well told, with a rare combination of pace, verve and scholarship' Jeanette Winterson, Daily TelegraphUnrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert's Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers' and gas workers' trades unions. For years she worked tirelessly for her father, Karl Marx, as personal secretary and researcher. Later she edited many of his key political works, and laid the foundations for his biography. But foremost among her achievements was her pioneering feminism. For her, sexual equality was a necessary precondition for a just society. Drawing strength from her family and their wide circle, including Friedrich Engels and Wilhelm Liebknecht, Eleanor Marx set out into the world to make a difference - her favourite motto: 'Go ahead!' With her closest friends - among them, Olive Schreiner, Havelock Ellis, George Bernard Shaw, Will Thorne and William Morris - she was at the epicentre of British socialism. She was also the only Marx to claim her Jewishness. But her life contained a deep sadness: she loved a faithless and dishonest man, the academic, actor and would-be playwright Edward Aveling. Yet despite the unhappiness he brought her, Eleanor Marx never wavered in her political life, ceaselessly campaigning and organising until her untimely end, which - with its letters, legacies, secrets and hidden paternity - reads in part like a novel by Wilkie Collins, and in part like the modern tragedy it was. Rachel Holmes has gone back to original sources to tell the story of the woman who did more than any other to transform British politics in the nineteenth century, who was unafraid to live her contradictions.